About this time of the summer of 2012 we were also engulfed in a wave of climate amplified extremes. Indeed that year an increasing number of people were waking up to the threat of climate change.
Interesting to compare what was happening at that moment in terms of extreme storms, heat, and fire, with the steadily increased intensity we have seen in the intervening 12 years.
For myself, that was the first year I got up on a glacier, with Mauri Pelto in the Cascades of Washington, cut my teeth crowd funding, and in late July, finished editing this piece, which remains one of my favorites from the “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” series.
I was working on this late at night while attending a Society of Environmental Journalists meeting in Southwest Michigan, when I realized my cheeks were wet with tears.
The climate has always changed. Now the magnetic field is not stopping the sun’s particles and destroying the ozone. Building and buying more of the earths finite resources is not going to reverse things. Reduce population so nature can replenish resources.
And we’re still fighting the fossil fuel companies and the media companies and the politicians that they own.